A few of the Coalition promises, of which the odd one seems to have been broken.

1. No frontline cuts2. Protecting the NHS budget3. 3,000 more police officers 4. Keeping VAT at 17.5%5. Keeping the Future Jobs Fund 6. Keeping Education Maintenance Allowances7. Preserving tax credits for middle earners 8. Removing the “couple penalty”9. Scrapping tuition fees10. No bonuses for bank directors11. 3,000 more midwives12. Three more army battalions13. Pupil Premium additional to the schools budget14. Keeping Child Benefit universal15. Stopping A&E and maternity closures16. A Post Office Bank17. No new nuclear power stations18. Removing high marginal tax rates19. No cuts to the Royal Navy20. Automatic prison sentence for carrying a knife21. Cutting rail fares each year22. Keeping the Child Trust Fund for the poorest families23. No more top down NHS reorganisations24. No cuts to public spending this year

Misguided, or Just Plain Nasty & U-turns

Public Health Committee set up by Coalition - scrapped.DWP refuses to release names of companies participating in Workfare.Peers will only take retirement for a golden handshake of £40,000Privatising educational services for disabled children. £26 billion sell off.Free school milk cuts.Cancelled School building.New build schools to be smaller.Sellling off school playing fields.Bookstart funding.Child benefit cuts.Student fees.NHS sell off.Failure to show NHS risk register.Osborne takes a billion pounds from NHS.Cancer patients made to work.Cutting funding in the community.Workfare.ATOS.ESA.£2 an hour apprenticeship scheme.Slashed regeneration benefitsHousing benefit stopped for under 25s.Domestic Violence protection orders.Annonymity for rape defendents.Coast Guard cuts.State retirement age for Women.Bedroom Tax.Moving housing benefit recipients out of London.Easing building regs for fire and wheelchair access.Rise in food banks.Assault payouts.Knife crime sentencingDNA database.Privatising Police.Privatising probation service.Prisoners to man call centres.Sacking troops.Getting rid of Legal Aid.Destroying Buzzard's nests.Badger Cull.Selling off Forests.

Foot in Mouth

Osborne: Suggests swopping labour rights for shares.Osborne: Says closed curtains hiding scroungers.Osborne: accused Ed of lying. Refused to apologise.Osborne: Rail fare cheat.May: asylum seeker's cats.Maude and petrol crisis.Stephen Hammond critising tax avoiders, & doing the same.IDS fibbed about qualifications.Tory minister: party needs to look like it's on the side of striving blue collar workers.Philip Lee: wants patients to be given itemised lists of cost of treatment.Ian Duncan Smith: wants two children only for FA.Cameron: calm down dear. Cameron: Ed Ball. Tourettes.Cameron: Going to cut Tariffs.Pensioners to do charity work for their pensions.Mitchell: fucking plebs.

DodgyDavid Ammes. ExpensesBaroness Warsi. ExpensesLaws. ExpensesChappes/Green. Dodgy business practisesChris Heaton-Harris colluding, collaborating with Delapole.Hunt and Murdoch.Gove's lost emails.IDS facing code of conduct over lobbying companyLiley. Scoffs at global warming, Family ties to oil. Given job in Dept environment industry.Fox and Werrity.Peter Cruddas selling suppers at Dave's.Military lobbying.PM's emails kept back from Levison.ATOS found to be misleading government.Osborne pushes for UK to be wordwide hub for fossil fuels. Father-in-law is head of lobbying company for oil and gas.Serco's out-of-hours doctor services in Cornwall falsified data to the NHS. Financial services spent £94 million on lobbying. Consequently, corporation tax slashed. Not for profit Pension scheme for low paid and part time workers nuetured and a plan for new corporate watchdog to police quoted companies killed.

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